The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) established a committee Wednesday to investigate reasons behind the death of late Yasser Arafat.
Interim President Rawhi Fattouh told reporters in Ramallah that committee chairman, Health Minister Jawad Tibi, will head a delegation and travel to France to receive the French medical report on Arafat's death.
Arafat died in a military hospital near Paris on Nov. 11 from a still-undisclosed illness. French authorities say they can only release the medical report to his immediate family.
Fattouh said he met the French Consul General in Jerusalem and officially requested the medical report.
"We are still waiting for an answer," he said.
Speculation in the Palestinian territories has it that Arafat was poisoned and the failure of the French hospital to release the medical report to the PNA has only added fuel to the rumors.
Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said the Fattouh decree was issued "so that everything we do is legal and based on the law".
"It is just confirmation of what the government can do in the vacuum after Arafat death," he said.